Curriculum Vitae - Researchers @ Brown

CURRICULUM VITAE
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VIRGINIA A. KRAUSE
Professor of French Studies
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Box 1961
Department of French Studies
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
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EDUCATION
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Beloit College, Beloit, WI
Ph.D., French
Masters of Arts
B.A., French
1996
1992
1990
Dissertation Topic: Literary Idleness in the French Renaissance: From Romance to the Essais.
Thesis Director: Professor Ullrich Langer.
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PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Professor of French Studies, Brown University
2016-
Associate Professor of French Studies, Brown University
2003-16
Assistant Professor of French Studies, Brown University
1996-2003
Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1990-96
CONCURRENT APPOINTMENTS
Director, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, Brown University
fall 2007-2010
Visiting Assoc. Prof. of Romance Languages and Literature, Harvard
fall 2007
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COMPLETED RESEARCH
a.
BOOKS
Jean Bodin, De la démonomanie des sorciers, co-edited with Christian Martin and Eric MacPhail
(Geneva: Droz, 2016).
Witchcraft, Demonology, and Confession in Early Modern France (New York: Cambridge University
Press, 2015).
Idle Pursuits: Literature and ‘Oisiveté’ in the French Renaissance (Newark: University of Delaware
Press, 2003).
Virginia KRAUSE (page 2)
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CHAPTERS IN BOOKS / ENTRIES IN ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND IN READERS
"The Dido Effect: Hélisenne de Crenne and the Rise of the French Novel" festschrift in honor of Mary
McKinley, ed. Jeff Persels, George Hoffmann, and Kendall Tarte (in progress).
“Sorcellerie et subjectivité: la sorcière, bête d’aveu ? (Les Anormaux dans le sillon de L’Histoire de
la sexualité),” Foucault et la Renaissance, ed. Olivier Guerrier (Paris: Les Classiques Garnier,
forthcoming).
"Witchcraft and Subjectivity: The Trial of the Marlou Witches (1582-83)," Memory and Community in
Sixteenth-Century French Literature, ed. David Laguardia and Cathy Yandell (Farnham, UK: Ashgate
University Press, 2015): 217-241.
“Listening to Witches: Bodin’s Use of Confession in De la Démonomanie des sorciers,” The
Reception of Jean Bodin. Ed. Howell Lloyd (Leiden: Brill, 2013): 97-115.
"On Becoming Human, (chapter 13),” Approaches to Teaching Rabelais’s ‘Gargantua,’ ‘Pantagruel,’
and Other Works, ed. Todd Reeser and Floyd Gray (New York: MLA, 2011): 200-210.
"Confession or parrhesia? Foucault after Montaigne,” Montaigne after Theory/Theory after
Montaigne, ed. Zahi Zalloua (Seattle: University of Washington Press and Whitman College, 2009):
142-160.
"The Poetics of Adventure: Amadis de Gaule,” Chance, Literature, and Culture in Early Modern
France, ed. John D. Lyons and Kathleen Wine (Farnham, UK: Ashgate University Press, 2009): 6580.
“Witchcraft Confessions and Demonology,” ext. from “Confessional Fictions” (2005), republished in
The Witchcraft Reader, 2nd edition, ed. Darren Oldridge (London/New York: Routledge, 2008): 305310.
“The Heptameron Tales 22 and 72 and the Visual Arts: Resisting Temptation,” Approaches to Teaching
Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptameron, ed. Colette Winn (New York: Modern Language Association,
2007): 198-205.
“Michel de Montaigne,” Sixteenth-Century French Writers, ed. Megan Conway (Detroit: Gale, 2006):
297-316.
“Serializing the French Amadis in the 1540s,” 1540: Charting a Change in French Thought and
Culture, ed. Marian Rothstein (Selinsgrove: Susquehanna UP, 2006): 40-62.
“Montaigne’s Errors of Youth: Lyricism and Confession in “Sur des vers de Virgile,” Montaigne Studies
XVIII (spring 2006): 25-36.
Dictionnaire de Michel de Montaigne, ed. Philippe Desan (Paris: Champion, 2004): “Oisiveté,” 727729; 2nd edition (2008) “Confesser-confession.”
Virginia KRAUSE (page 3)
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CHAPTERS IN BOOKS / ENTRIES IN ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND IN READERS (cont.)
"Confessions d'une héroïne romanesque: Les Angoysses douloureuses d'Hélisenne de Crenne,"
in Hélisenne de Crenne: l'écriture et ses doubles, ed. Jean-Philippe Beaulieu and Diane
Desrosiers-Bonin (Paris: Champion, 2004): 19-34.
Rabelais Encyclopedia, ed. Elizabeth Chesney-Legura (Westport, Connecticut/London:
Greenwood Press, 2004): “Gastrolâtres,” 96-97; “Idleness,” 125-126.
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REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
“Confessional Fictions and Demonology in Renaissance France,” Journal of Medieval and Early
Modern Studies 35.2 (spring 2005): 327-348.
"Le Sort de la Sorcière: Médée de Corneille," Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature
58:30 (2003): 1-16.
"Montaigne's art of idleness," Viator 31 (2000): 361-80.
"The End of Chivalric Romance: Barthélemy Aneau's Alector (1560)," Renaissance and
Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme 2:23 (1999): 45-60.
"Idle Works in Rabelais' Quart Livre: The Case of the Gastrolatres," The Sixteenth Century
Journal 30:1 (1999): 47-60.
"'Une Charogne' or Les Amours decomposed: corpse, corpora, corpus," (co-authored
with Christian Martin) The Romanic Review 89:3 (1998): 321-31.
"Topoï et utopie de l'amour dans les Lais de Marie de France," (co-authored with Christian
Martin), Dalhousie French Studies 42 (1998): 3-15.
"Bâtardise et cocuage dans L'Ecole des Femmes," L'Esprit Créateur XXXVI (1996): 73-81.
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BOOK REVIEWS
Dieu à nostre commerce et société: Montaigne et la Théologie, ed. Philippe Desan (Geneva: Droz,
2008), Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance, LXXI, 3: 672-674.
Véronique Duché-Gavet, Si du mont Pyrenée / N’eussent passé le haut fait… Les romans
sentimentaux traduits de l’espagnol en France au XVIe siècle (Paris: Champion, 2008) Renaissance
Quarterly 62:3 Autumn/Fall (2009): 893-94.
Herberay des Essarts, Amadis de Gaule, Livre I, ed. Michel Bideaux (Paris: Champion, 2006)
Renaissance Quarterly 61:1 (2008): 182-84
Virginia KRAUSE (page 4)
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BOOK REVIEWS (cont.)
Herberay des Essarts, Amadis de Gaule, Livre IV, ed. Luce Guillerm (Paris: Champion, 2005)
Renaissance Quarterly 49:3 (2006): 887-89.
Giovanna Angeli, Le masque de Lancelot: Lumières de la Renaissance au XVe siècle, trans. Arlette
Estève (Paris: Champion, 2004) Renaissance Quarterly (2005): 613-15.
Françoise Lavocat (ed), Usages et theories de la fiction: Le débat contemporain à l'épreuve des textes
anciens (XVI-XVIIIe siècles) (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2004) French Forum 30:2
(Spring 2005): 144-46.
Oumelbanine Zhiri, L'Extase et ses paradoxes: Essai sur la structure narrative du 'Tiers Livre' (Paris:
Champion, 1999) The Sixteenth Century Journal 31:4 (2000): 1136-37.
Michel Renaud, Pour une lecture du 'Moyen de Parvenir' (Paris: Champion, 1997) The Sixteenth
Century Journal 30:2 (1999): 528-29.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Syllabus for FR 1000 along with selected teaching materials published in the AP French Literature
Teacher's Guide, 2006.
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INVITED LECTURES / COLLOQUIA
"Montaignian Happiness: Lessons in Landscape," Happiness in the Early Modern Period, Center for
Early Modern Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 12-11 2016.
"The Dido Effect: Hélisenne de Crenne and the Rise of the French Novel," Renaissance Seminar,
Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, 23 April 2015.
"Into the Night: Early Modern Demonologists' Dark Truth," Department of French, University of
Virginia, 29 March 2012.
“Sorcellerie et subjectivité: la sorcière, bête d’aveu? (Les Anormaux dans le sillon de L’Histoire de la
sexualité),” Foucault et la Renaissance, Université de Toulouse II-Le Mirail, 13-16 March 2012.
“Listening to Witches: Bodin’s Use of Confession in the Démonomanie des sorciers,” The Reception
of Jean Bodin, part II, University of Hull, UK, July 4-7 2011.
“Witchcraft and Subjectivity,” Memory and Community in 16th Century France, Guthrie Workshop,
Dartmouth College, May 13-14, 2011.
“Under the Witch's Spell: Demonology in Renaissance France,” Humanities Center, Brandeis
University, 3 March 2011.
Virginia KRAUSE (page 5)
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INVITED LECTURES / COLLOQUIA (cont.)
“The Reception of Bodin,” the first in a two-part workshop organized by Professor Howell Lloyd,
University of Hull, UK, July 1-3 2009.
“The French Amadis and the Poetics of Adventure,” Amadís de Gaula at 500, The Society for the
Humanities, Cornell University, April 26, 2008.
“’Confessons le vrai’: Foucault after Montaigne,” Montaigne After Theory/Theory After Montaigne,
Whitman College, February 23-24, 2007.
“Jean Bodin, Demonologist: Discerning Spirits, Editing the Devil,” Renaissance Studies, Indiana
University, January 18, 2007.
“The Confession of Gilles de Rais,” The Early Modern Subject in Question, The Irvin Colloquium,
Miami University, organized by Elisabeth Hodges and Claire Goldstein, November 2-3, 2006.
“Michel de Montaigne.” Boston University, Core Curriculum, 201 “The Renaissance,” organized by
Professor Christopher Martin, October 17, 2006.
"Commodifying Leisure in the Renaissance: The Amadis Serial," Humanities Center, Harvard
University, 10 October 2002.
"Confessions d'une héroïne romanesque: Hélisenne de Crenne et les égarements du roman à la
Renaissance," Du roman baroque au roman courtois, international colloquium organized by the ESR,
Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, July 2-5, 2002.
"Montaigne's art of idleness." Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, Brown University, 13 April 1999.
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PAPERS
"Corpus delicti: Montaigne's Position against the Witch-hunts," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference,
New Orleans, October 2014
"Becoming a Witch: Confession and Subjectivity in the Trial of the Marlou Witches (1582–83),"
Renaissance Society of America, March 2014.
"Helisenne de Crenne and Renaissance Epic," Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, San Juan, Puerto
Rico, October 2013.
“Witchcraft and Confession,” Faculty Forum, Department of French Studies, Brown University,
November 1, 2012.
“Dark Truth: The Auricular Regime of Demonology in Early Modern France,“ The Future and the
Unknown, Barnard College, December 1, 2012.
Virginia KRAUSE (page 6)
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PAPERS (cont.)
“Into the Night: Demonology’s Dark Truth,” Modern Language Association, Seattle, January 2012.
“The Passion of Dido: Hélisenne de Crenne and Renaissance Epic,” Renaissance Society of America,
March 26, 2011.
“The Biography of Jean Bodin,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 2009.
“Jean Bodin, Michel Foucault, and Renaissance Demonology,” Renaissance Society of America, April
2008.
“Poétique de l’aventure: le roman renaissant,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April
2006.
“Lyricism and Confession in “Sur des vers de Virgile,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April
2005.
“The Making of a Humanist Literary Serial? From the Amadis Serial to a Rabelaisian Series,” Division
of Sixteenth-century French Literature, Modern Language Association, December 2004
“The Renaissance Literary Serial,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 2004.
“Solicitation in the Confessional: Heptaméron 22, 41, 71," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference,
April 2003.
"Confessional fiction or fictional confession in Les Angoysses douloureuses," Renaissance Society of
America, Spring 2002.
"Best-selling Romance: Supporting or Supplanting the Humanist Canon?" Kentucky Foreign Language
Conference, April 2001.
"From Recreation to Suspense: Mind games in Amyot's Histoire AEthiopique (1547),"
Renaissance Society of America, March 2000.
"Eros and Oisiveté in the Amours," The Group of Early Modern Cultural Studies, October 1999.
"Curiosity and Leisure in the Fourth Estate," Société d'Etude de la Littérature du Dix-Septième
Siècle, November 1999.
"Idleness in the Fourth Estate: The Familiar Writing of Pasquier, Montaigne and Others,"
The Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 1999.
"Montaigne's art of idleness," The Carolina Conference on Romance Languages, March 1999.
Virginia KRAUSE (page 7)
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PAPERS (cont.)
"Pour ne demeurer oisif: Chevaleries and Aristocratic Idleness in Renaissance Romance," The
Group of Early Modern Cultural Studies, November 1998.
"Vagabond, Fainéant, and Essayist: Montaigne's Literary Idleness and Renaissance Public Works,"
The Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October 1998.
"The Way to Virtue and Knowledge by Means of Romance: Barthélemy Aneau's Alector
(1560),” Renaissance Society of America, Spring 1998.
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RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
The Rise of the Novel in Renaissance France (in progress)
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July 1, 2015